Issue Description

The Man with the Radioactive Touch (Superman) -- 2. Tail Lights, Cooking School, I Hate Fish! (Gags) -- 3. Tear Gas, Bread (It's True) -- 4. The Jailed Star (Pep Morgan) -- 5. Tobo, Fur Coat, Back Seat Driver (Laff Lines) -- 6. Escape from the Palace (Black Pirate) -- 7. Palm Tree, States, Switzerland, Thespian (Quiz) -- 8. Iodine, Walnut Trees -- 9. The Medicine Thief (Three Aces) -- 10. Vs. the Fifth Columnists (Mr. America) -- 11. Get Your Man -- 12. Hot Dog Stand (Silly Willy) -- 13. The Secret U-Boat Base (Congo Bill) -- 14. "I've Not Yet Begun to Fight!" (Famous American Words) -- 15. 3/5th's of a Second, First Electrical Communication -- 16. The Zin Diamond (Zatara) At the Chalmers radiation labs, scientist Brett Bryson disregards the warnings of his colleagues Chalmers and Davis, and performs an experiment with radium. Something goes wrong and Bryson seems to have been killed in a radioactive explosion.
After Chalmers is cleared of negligence in court, a strange, glowing hooded man stages a number of robberies. The 'ghost' is impervious to bullets, has enormous strength and his touch causes death from radium poisoning. As a result, the police suspect Superman of the crimes.
Visiting police headquarters as Clark, Superman discovers that the ghost's fingerprints are those of Brett Bryson. When Superman looks in Bryson's grave, he finds the coffin empty. Confronting Chalmers the facts, Superman forces him to reveal that he planned the explosion in order to get Bryson to commit robberies for him, while telling Bryson that he had only a week to live and by committing the robberies he could provide for his widow after his death.

Action Comics (1938)

Publisher

DC Comics

Volume Description

In the early days of comics books, it was not the convention to name comics after specific characters. Rather comics bore generic names such as this one. Although this series featured Superman throughout, it thus bore this name, one which it has become famous for (and the name was kept after the launch of The New 52.) It was the fourth DC Comics title, and the first new one produced after Detective Comics spread beyond the one title (this was after it purchased More Fun Comics and New Adventure Comics.)

Starring: Lex Luthor (starting #890) until #900.

Second Feature: Captain Atom (#879-#889), Superboy (#892), Jimmy Olsen (#893-#896)

(Issues #601-642 are filed under Action Comics Weekly)

Collected EditionsSuperman: The Golden Age Omnibus vol. 1 (#1-31)Adventures of Superman: Gil Kane vol. 1 (#539-541, 545, 546 & #551-554)Superman vs. Darkseid (#586)They Saved Luthor's Brain (#600, #668, #670-673, #676-678 )Panic in the Sky (#674-675)Death of Superman (#683-684)World Without Superman (#685-686)Superman: Funeral For A Friend (#685-686)Superman: Reign of the Supermen (#687-688)The Trial of Superman (#716-717)Transformed! (#729 & 732)DC Comics Presents: Superman #4 (#768, #771-773)Superman: Emperor Joker (#769-770)President Lex (#773)Superman: Our Worlds At War, Book One (#780-781)Superman: Our Worlds At War, Book Two (#782)Superman: Ending Battle (#795-796)DC Comics Presents: Superman #2 (#798)Godfall (Action Comics #812- 813, Adventures of Superman #625- 626 and Superman #202- 203)Superman: The Wrath of Gog (#814-819; backups #812-813)Superman: Sacrifice (Action Comics #829, Superman #218-220, Adventures of Superman #642-643 and Wonder Woman #219-220)Superman: Up, Up and Away! (#837-840)Superman: Back In Action (#841-843, plus stories from DC Comics Presents #4, #17 and #24)Superman: Last Son (#844-846, #851 and Action Comics Annual #11)The Third Kryptonian (Superman #668-670, Action Comics #847, Superman Annual #13)Redemption (Superman #659&666, Action Comics #848-849)3-2-1 Action (Superman #665, Action Comics #852-854, Legends of the DC Universe #14)Superman: Escape From Bizarro World (#855-857)Superman And The Legion of Super-Heroes (#858-863)Superman: Brainiac (#866-870)Superman: New Krypton Vol. 1 (#871)Superman: New Krypton Vol. 2 (#872-873)Superman: Nightwing And Flamebird Vol. 1 (#875-879 and Action Comics Annual #12)Superman: Codename Patriot (#880)Superman: Nightwing And Flamebird Vol. 2 (#883-889, Superman #696 and Adventure Comics #8-10)Superman: The Black Ring Vol. 1 (#890-895)Superman: The Black Ring Vol. 2 (#896-900; Action Comics Annual #13; Secret Six #29)Secret Six: Caution To the Wind (#897)Superman: Reign of Doomsday (#900-904)For Post-Flashpoint refer to Action Comics (Vol. 2)

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